Joey Holder

Joey Holder is a visual artist, producer, and mentor. She is represented by Seventeen, London. She is the Director of SPUR, an online platform which supports digital practice, and the Director of Chaos Magic, Nottingham.

Joey Holder has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Athens Biennale, Design Museum, Moscow Biennale, Transmediale, and Venice Biennale. Her artwork is fuelled by continued dialogue and collaborations with researchers and practitioners from varied fields. She creates fictional worlds and constructed environments that respond directly to contemporary, real world events. Each artwork is considered a “set,” with filmic, narrative, architectural, visuals, and sound elements created uniquely for the conceptual underpinning of the project. She has worked with computational geneticists, marine biologists, behavioural psychologists, and investigative journalists where her artwork has addressed themes including future farming, synthetic biology, and deep sea ecosystems.

Solo exhibitions include: Abyssal Seeker, Seventeen, London (2021) and FUTURA, Prague; Semelparous, Offspace, London (2020); Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network, QUAD, Derby, Matt’s Gallery, London, and Bloc Projects, Sheffield (2018); Selachimorpha, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2017); Ophiux, Sonic Arts, Amsterdam, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2016), and BioSTAT, Project Native Informant, London (2015). Group shows include: British Art Show 9, touring UK; Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale, Slovenia; ANTI, 6th Athens Biennale (2018); Joy Before the Object, Seventeen Gallery, London (2019); Cursed Images, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna (2019); Future Love, HeK, Basel (2018); Inside Intel, The Centre for Investigative Journalism, London; Transcendental Forest, 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2017); Beyond the Liquid Horizon, le lieu unique, Nantes; SITUATIONS/Post Fail, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2018); r u still there?, House of Egorn; Alien Matter, transmediale, Berlin; Materialising the Internet, MU, Eindhoven (2017).

Her work has been covered in ARTFORUM, A-N, AQNB, Art Monthly, BOMB magazine, DAZED DIGITAL, Elephant, Flash Art, Frieze, The Guardian, It’s Nice That, OFLUXO, Rhizome, SPIKE, thisistomorrow, Time Out, and VICE.